AU Instructor Toolkit for Emergency Remote Instruction - Discussion

Discussion Guides

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Guidance for Instructor Contact Minutes:

• 60 minutes per discussion 
  • Faculty posts a question/prompt that requires students to respond/post in a high-quality research-based manner. 
  • 15 minutes per peer response that is high quality and adds value to the conversations.

Create a Discussion Forum and Topic

• Create the discussion topic
  • Make edits after creating the discussion
• Video: Create a discussion topic and forum (1:20, Source: D2L Brightspace)

Add Link to Discussion from Content Area

• Add the discussion to the D2L Content area